Overview

• Todd Arrington stepped down on Monday as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library after resisting requests to remove an original Eisenhower sword for President Trump's state-visit gift to King Charles III.
• Buckingham Palace confirmed the monarch received a replica supplied by West Point after the library declined to provide an original artifact from its collection.
• Sources say the first lady selected a sword from State Department gift options, Arrington argued that donated items belong to the American people, and he offered to help source a replica instead.
• Arrington told reporters he was told to resign or be fired, while U.S. officials involved in the visit said they were unaware he had left and asserted the White House played no role in his exit.
• NARA and the library did not provide public explanations, directors are hired under the Archivist of the United States, and media reports described a State Department liaison seeking “like a sword or something” ahead of the visit.